Feeding out paper erom printing-presses



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MOSES S. BEACH, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FEEDING OUT PAPER FROM PRINTING-PRESSES.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 22,011, dated November 9, 1858".

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Mosns S. BEACH, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Printing- Presses; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

The object of this invention is to conduct sheets of paper from more than one impression cylinder or source of supply into a single set of guide tapes or strings and also to count them in desired quantities.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l is a side view. Fig. 2 an end view with the tapes removed and Fig. 3 a sectional view at the red line a, Z) in Fig. l, the last showing only the motion of the counting apparatus.

In these figures A is the upper and B the lower guide tape which receives and conducts the sheet from the first cylinder or source of supply.

C is the upper and D the lower guide tape which receives and conducts the sheet from the second cylinder or source of supply.

The lower guide tape B passes around the tape roller E and returns to th'e roller F while the upper tape A continues down and around tape rollers G, H, I, and J, back to roller, K whence it started. The sheet from the first cylinder or supply having entered between the tapes A, B, and rollers F and K and passed around roller L is left without a support on one side at ro-ller E. At this point a stationary guide M prevents its following the tape B and points it between tape A and tape D, on ro-ller Gr, where it is r-eceived and, following on with the tapes, is finally delivered from between rollers H and N upon the moving counting table O. The sheet from the second cylinder or supply having entered between tapes C, D@ and. rollers P, Q, and passed onward to roller R, is there left without the upper guide tape C which returns thence to roller P, whence it started. At this point a stationary guide S, prevents the sheet from following the tape C, and points it between tapes A and D, on roller G and from thence it follows the same course as the first sheet. In this way sheets from any number of dierent cylinders or sources of supply may be conducted to a common series of tape guides and deliveries, being arranged so as to come together, or to follow each other, singly at roller Gr.

The counting table, O, is a canvas stretched over the rollers P, Q. It is provided with a stationary striking or back board R against which the sheets, falling from the delivery rollers H, N, strike. The canvas table is made to move forward a short distance after each 25 or other arranged for number of sheets has been deposited upon it, thus leaving the sheets in piles of the number provided for, each pile marked by the space left from one side of it to the corresponding side of the preceding pile by the motion of the table.

The motion of the table is produced by the spring S, drawing down the lever T, as soon as it is released from the pin V, on the cog wheel WV, until it rest upon the stationary pin U, the lever T, being provided with a spring pawl X falling into the teeth of the ratchet wheel Y, attached to the counting table roller P, the cog wheel 7 being moved by the worm Z on roller I. The red lines show the positions of sheets at different points of their progress.

lVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is;

1. The stationary guides M, S, and the arrangement of the rollers E, B, G or their equivalents, by which sheets coming from different directions are conducted into a single set of guide tapes or strings in the manner substantially as herein shown and described.

2. Counting sheets into desired quantities by a counting table, consisting of an endless belt, having an intermittent motion arranged and operating substantially as herein shown and described.

M. S. BEACH.

Witnesses:

JAMns Gr. COOPER, J. HALLERDAN. 

